The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6

Clare Finburgh is Reader in European Theatre at Goldsmiths College, UK. Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, Denmark.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Series, Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)
Introduction to Volume 6: A Popular Theatre for All: Western European Theatre Direction in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Peter M. Boenisch (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths College, UK)

Joan Littlewood

1. Joan Littlewood, Rebel With a Cause: Opening New Directions in British Theatre, Danielle Merahi (theatre director and translator, France)
2. Señora Littlewood’s Rifles: Joan Littlewood and the Leftist Tradition in British Twentieth-Century Theatre, Robert Leach (independent scholar, UK)

Giorgio Strehler

3. Giorgio Strehler: The Epic Stage Director Who Betrayed Brecht, Bent Holm (independent scholar, Denmark)
4. A Theatre of/for Europe: Giorgio Strehler and the Dream of a United Continent, Margherita Laera (University of Kent, UK)

Roger Planchon

5. ‘Theatre’s Beauty is its Death’: Reflections on Working with Roger Planchon, Michel Bataillon (Maison Antoine Vitez, France)
6. Approaching Brecht – Documenting Planchon: Roger Planchon’s Three Stagings of The Good Person of Szechwan, Pia Kleber (University of Toronto, Canada)

Notes
Bibliography
Index